As enticing as the Razer Phone may be for power users, there are a few key issues that hold it back from being amazing – the display is pretty dim, camera performance leaves much to be desired, and the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack is a strange omission for something described as being the "smartphone for gamers."

By removing the headphone jack – we were able to increase the battery size significantly (I estimate we added 500maH more), improve thermals for performance and a whole lot more.

Tan also addressed that every Razer Phone comes with a 24-bit THX Certified DAC adapter that offers "even better quality headphone audio", and he also made sure to point out –

On top of that, we've released the HammerHead USB C (retails at $79.99) and the HammerHead BT with all day battery life (US$99.99 – or free with Paid to Play!) which makes it a complete solution.

It certainly is impressive if Razer actually managed to increase the Razer Phone's battery capacity by 500 mAh by removing the headphone jack, but we also don't doubt that the company saw an opportunity to sell a couple accessories alongside its new gadget to make shareholders as happy as possible.

We know there's a bunch of camera updates planned. Last I was told there's at least three in the pipeline.

Planned and having a timeline to deliver though are different things entirely. But of course, all the software engineers in comments sections will say otherwise ;-)

They were always pretty up front about why they removed the jack in our briefings. They had to compromise to deliver other things they wanted to. I miss the jack myself, but it's a compromise to get a huge battery. And the THX dongle is pretty bad ass.

You can't be all things to all people unless your an Apple loyalist, (which you'll believe anything). Calling a phone a "gamers" phone with no headphone jack it's pretty dumb. Razer appears to be taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook. Release a phone with incomplete features. I had high hopes for this phone.
I'll stick with my Shield tablet if I want to play games.

It isn't comfortable, but I didn't say it is impossible. It really sucks to have the headphone and charging cables both plugged in and try to play. Cell phone gaming sucks with cords stuck in your phone.

The headphone jack on the U11 nestles comfortably between my index and middle fingers while gaming, so I guess position helps.
With the Razer, I'd be more concerned about comfort with those sharp corners!

You can see in the disassembly/teardown video that it uses a large battery so I see where they are coming from. I still think if the crammed some of the components a bit closer together, they would have been able to make room enough for it, but I don't know all that well about what other components would be required to be on the motherboard if a head phone jack was added.

Everyone complains about the darn headphone jack. Take the dongle and leave it attached to your headphones. Then you just plug them in like any other pair of headphones. Or just adapt (like humans have done for thousands of years) and buy Bluetooth headphones. And the fact that it has omitted the headphone jack and and gave us a bigger battery is part of what makes it a phone for gamers. If I plan on getting into a game on my phone, the last thing I want is cords hanging out of my phone everywhere. Especially when I have those nice big speakers pointed at me for great game audio immersion that doesn't require a cord to be connected.

Why don't we discuss the good things and be positive.
Then screen is awesome, sure you can't play games very well in direct sunlight, but honestly who is going to be sitting out in direct sunlight playing games. I am sure it is adequately bright enough to answer a text.
The speakers are an awesome addition. Good and loud.
And the style, even if you don't like it, it breaks the mold for what other phones are looking like.
8GB RAM is definitely a welcomed addition considering most phones have half of that or less.
Thermal management from a company that makes gaming hardware, this thing should stay ice cold no matter what you are playing.

The world would be a lot better of a place if people would just stop complaining.
If you don't like the phone, don't buy it. There is no reason to spread your negativity to everyone else.

Bluetooth speakers will be lousy for gaming on the Razer, the phone isn't APTX enabled so lag Will be terrible.
No matter how you spin it the screen is poor, some of us work outdoors you know.
Battery life is not great for a 4000 man cell, camera is rubbish for s £700 device.
Also one review I read yesterday has the paint coming away on the corners after just two weeks.

I complain about the lack of headphone jack because how else is Razer supposed to know that is why I didn't bother buying this phone? Maybe if we complain enough the Razer 2 phone will have a headphone jack.

Remember how the Galaxy S6 dropped the microSD card slot, but enough people complained so Samsung brought it back for the S7?